The July Giving Back Project will follow in the spirit of our summer projects highlighting mission trips being taken by members of FTGA.  Maureen G. will join a group of high school students and adults from Villa Madonna Academy in Villa Hills, KY.  Her sister is a religion teacher there and this is the 2^nd trip she’s organized in the past year.  They are going from 8/2---8/10 and will be working with the HELPS organization to lay concrete floors in the homes of villagers in the extremely remote town of Santa Avelina in the Ixil triangle.  Most of the town’s residents do not even speak Spanish.  Concrete floors are necessary because their homes currently have mud floors which promote the spread of parasitic infections which is a major health hazard for rural Guatemalans.  The cost of each floor is $250.  The group plans to raise the money for over 40 floors and the participants are paying their own travel costs.  Because the village is so remote, they are staying in the town’s school sleeping on cots.  (The school was built a few years ago by another HELPS work team.)